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Mortar Battery

<p>Sketch plan of Fort Slocum&#39;s Mortar Battery, 1920, showing the four pits for the groups of heavy mortars and the connecting tunnels (courtesy Coast Defense Study Group).</p>

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<p>Cross-section sketch of a mortar pit, 1895.</p>

02-Mortar Pit Revetment Section
<p>Vertical aerial photograph of Fort Slocum&#39;s Mortar Battery and its surroundings, August 1924.</p>

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<p>Oblique aerial photograph of Fort Slocum&#39;s Mortar Battery, looking north, January 1932.</p>

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<p>The heavy mortars in a pit similar to those of Fort Slocum at Battery Seminole, Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, circa 1918.</p>

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<p>The crowding of four mortar crews in a pit measuring about 40 by 60 feet, Battery Seminole, Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, circa 1918.</p>

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<p>Fort Slocum&#39;s Battery Overton, Pit B (Building 127), looking southwest, November 2005.</p>

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<p>Exposed bedrock, which forms southern wall of Battery Haskin Pit A (Building 125), looking southwest, December 2008.</p>

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<p>A typical steep concrete wall of one of the pits of Fort Slocum&#39;s Mortar Battery: Battery Haskin Pit B (Building 126), looking south-southwest, December 2008.</p>

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